Particle-Based Optical Materials
Session B3
(Sunday, 1400-1715)
Session Chair:
Alfons van Blaaderen (Utrecht U)
1400 - 56.
Pierre Wiltzius; Colloidal self-assembly and novel optical materials
1430 - 57.
Paul Braun; Fabrication of highly oriented photonic crystals
1500 - Break
1515 - 58.
Francisco J. Meseguer Rico; Fabrication of opal templates for photonic
devices
1545 - 59.
Cefe López; Photonic bandgap properties of inverse opals fabricated
by various methods
1615 - 60.
Clivia M. Sottomayor Torres; Properties of nanocomposites as photonic crystals
1645 - 61.
Hernan Miguez; Inverse opals made by chemical vapor deposition and their
photonic crystal properties
1715 – End
of session
Session B5
(Monday, 0900-1215)
Session Chair:
Pierre Wiltzius (Lucent)
0900 - 189.
Alfons van Blaaderen; Manipulation of colloidal crystallization for photonic
applications
0930 - 190.
David Pine; Emulsion and colloidal templating of photonic crystals
1000 - 191.
Younan Xia; Fabrication of complex structures with monodisperse colloids
as the building blocks
1030 - Break
1045 - 192.
David Norris; Probing the photonic band gap in inverted opals
1115 - 193.
George Watson; Optical measurements of band structure and impurity states
in 3-D colloidal crystals
1145 - 194.
Paul Mulvaney; Artificial solids based on gold colloid core-shell particles
1215 – End
of session
Session B7
(Monday, 1400-1715)
Session Chair:
David Norris (NEC Research Institute)
1400 - 247.
Nick Abbott; Topological defects formed about solid particles in thermotropic
liquid crystals
1430 - 248.
Vikram Sundar; Synthesis and optical characterization of quantum dot/microsphere
composites
1500 - 249.
Guruswamy Kumaraswamy; Novel photonic materials from self-assembly of coated
colloids
1515 - Break
1530 - 250.
Peter Mach; Optical switching behavior of liquid crystals incorporated
into self-assembled colloids
1600 - 251.
Haim Grebel; 'Nano within nano' - Semiconductor particles imbedded within
synthetic opal
1630 - 252.
Tetsuo Tsutsui; Control of spontaneous emission using ordered arrays of
silica microspheres
1700 - 253.
Kristen Constant; Optical photonic crystals synthesized from colloidal
systems of polystyrene spheres and nanocrystalline titania
1715 – End
of session
(C) 2000
Particles Conference